D.C. Water has known for years about problems with an antiquated sewer pipe serving a flood-prone section of the city, and residents who have been repeatedly victimized by those floods are questioning why the agency didn’t act sooner.
“The solutions proposed by D.C. Water are ineffective when they’ve known since 2006 that Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park cannot handle a [severe] storm,” LeDroit Park resident Russell Kinner told a D.C. Council committee on Tuesday.
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